Patient Safety And Care: A Case Study

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (PSQIA) was signed into law on July 29, 2005, published on November 21, 2008 and became effective on January 19, 2009 (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, n.d). PSQIA catalyzes sharing of healthcare data, information and patient safety practices between health care organizations by creating Patient Safety Organizations (PSO). Providers can report or share information related to patient safety events with PSO without the fears of liability, because “ PSQIA provides federal privilege and confidentiality protections for patient safety information, called patient safety work product” (USDHMS, n.d ). This means protected information cannot be introduced in any federal, state, local, or tribal civil,

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how safety in the nursing profession affects the nursing education, nursing practice, and nursing research. Safety in the nursing profession means to minimize the risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performances (QSEN, 2014). Patient safety is a very important aspect in the profession of nursing. It is the nurse’s job to keep up to date with their patients and to make sure that protocol is being followed at all times. To maintain this strategy, the nurse must show proper knowledge of a nurse, skills of a nurse, and also a professional attitude.

According to the AHRQ: National Healthcare Quality Report (2009), the goal of quality of health is to help people stay healthy, learn to live with a disability or chronic disease, recuperate from an illness, and deal with dying and death. However, instead of delivering health care services that are safe, patient centered, equitable, and timely. Many patients do not receive needed care. When care is received many times it is unsafe or too late

It is a great opportunity to have this experience and to relate it with what we were being taught at school. There are a lot of connections in this project regarding patient safety. My safety project is a qualitative analysis of the difference between an allergy and sensitivity. The question still lies on how could the hospital staff manage allergy better?

In our nursing practice, the nurse is required to hold essential skills of clinical judgment and be a patient advocate to ensure the safety and the well-being of the patient we care for. Patient safety can be compromised if nurses are not able to identify potential issues thru assessment of the patient's sign and symptoms. Patient safety can also be compromised if nurses are afraid to speak up for our patient and question what we think or feel are unsafe acts or orders.

Patient safety is the top priority because health situation may change within few minutes depending on severity of the case. In this incident, physical injury has not taken place but the potentiality of injury is extremely high and there is a narrow space between the risk and injury. I have determined that next time i will give my first priority for safety measures no matter what area it is. In clinical practices, if my errors harm the resident, it is personally, ethically and professionally objectionable. I have learnt to place the bed to the lowest level and raise the side rails before I leave the resident’s room. Safety is resident’s right .Safety comes everywhere as priority and careful handling the elderly population is one of the higher

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the National Patient Safety Initiative, the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the New York State Department of Health (NYS DOH), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) have all developed regulatory and accreditation standards. For example, the JCAHO recommends that the surgical team pause and articulate the surgical site before commencing, to reduce medical error. Standards and accreditations include issues such as institutional hygiene and safety, as well as policy and procedure related to patient care.

Patient safety is a growing concern among healthcare professionals and the public (Goh, Chan, & Kuziemsky, 2013). As professional nurses, it is our duty to demonstrate improved safety for our patients, visitors and guests to the facilities in which we serve. It is also our duty to prevent adverse events and to view unfortunate incidents as learning opportunities to achieve a holistic view of patient care. By improving patient safety, we accept responsibility for more positive patient outcomes and a successful hospital stay. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the importance of data evaluation and interpretation to improve patient quality and safety.

Bring forth the conversation on the effects of equipment alarms toward patient's safety is a major concern. As nurses, we think the alarms are a nuisance and tend to be distracting. However, minimum thoughts are address toward the patient's concern.

Ensuring patient safety is a top priority throughout the healthcare industry. All healthcare organizations and hospitals alike have the ultimate goal of reducing and preventing inadvertent harm to patients as a result of their care (NKUSA, n.d.). Therefore, the actual key to patient safety is minimizing or eliminating harm to patients (NKUSA, n.d.). In reality, individual errors will never be totally eliminated, so the aim is to design systems that are “fault tolerant” so that the end result will not be harm to a patent, when an individual error happens, (NKUSA, n.d.).

Patient safety has become a major concern in the healthcare sector because of the prevalence of medical errors. Patient safety has even stood out as its own ideal discipline and it encompasses certain areas of healthcare service provision such as reporting, analysis and prevention of medical errors (because of the upsurge of medical errors across the globe). Initially, medical errors were not considered a big issue in medical circles until there was an increased trend of medical errors across the globe which resulted into adverse medical events and a high number of patient deaths. This trend prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to carry out an assessment of the impact of medical errors across the globe and established that at least 1 in every 10 patient across the globe is normally affected by medical errors (World Health Organization 2008).

Some falls cannot be prevented, but there are several intrinsic and extrinsic factors can reduce the number of falls in the inpatient setting. Quigley and White (2013) discuss that the trend in patient safety and quality in health care is based on implementing similar ideas of high reliability organizations (HRO). By embedding core characteristics into the organization, leaders shape expectations for daily roles, routines, and strategies to produce direction and predictability around processes and practices (Quigley and White, 2013). The focus of a HRO is safe reliable performance through a constant awareness of the state of the system and processes affecting patient care. The goal is to identify and prevent these risks. Another

“Patient safety is a serious global public health issue. Estimates show that in developed countries as many as one in 10 patients are harmed while receiving hospital care” (World Health Organization, 2016). This is an important issue that all providers of healthcare are involved in reducing the incidence of these types of preventable errors. With the nurse having the majority of face to face contact with the patient, their input is essential to improved outcomes.

There is a major concern about patient safety; not only here in the United States, but in many countries around the world. Medical errors can happen to unfortunately anyone and clearly they happen all the time around the world. There has been quite a few studies done in order to pin point some of the risk factors of medical errors and some of them had unsettling conclusions.

Is there a significant relationship between the demographic profile of the respondents and the perceived factors affecting patient safety?